C-Innovation’s fleet of Hugin autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV’s) provide customers with the highest resolution imagery and most accurate data available. Our vehicles feature a stable, low noise platform that can operate in depths up to 6000 meters. The fleet comes equipped with the latest and most accurate payload sensors such as Kongsberg HISAS, Side Scan Sonars, Multibeam echo sounders, sub-bottom profilers, still cameras, laser profilers, and a host of environmental sensors. By collecting accurate data from many different sensors simultaneously, we can provide our clients a complete data product from a single mission. Other features include terrain aided navigation, obstacle avoidance, autonomous pipeline tracking, and in-mission supervision. Real-time data transmission allows for monitoring of the vehicle, positioning, and payload sensors and serves as a quality measure to ensure a safe, effective, and accurate survey.

Our AUVs have carried out various mission types including:

• High-resolution high-speed seabed mapping and imaging
• Geophysical site inspection
• Pipeline and subsea structure inspection
• Oceanographic surveys
• Environmental monitoring
• Marine geological surveys
• Search operations

Cold War Submarine Found Off Coast of Hawaii; Last Seen 62 Years Ago – C-Innovation’s AUV crew played a part in the discovery with the help of third-party explorers who tracked down the submarine 10,944 feet below the ocean’s surface. The Stickleback is the third submarine to be discovered of the four US Navy submarines lost since the end of World War II.

World War II Submarine Found Off Coast of Japan, Ending 75-year Mystery – C-Innovation’s AUV crew played a part in the discovery with the help of third-party explorers who tracked down the submarine 1,400 feet below the ocean’s surface.

• C-Innovation Successfully Completes Stem Clamp Installation on BP’s Mad Dog Spar
  C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has completed the installation of several stem clamps for BP beneath the Mad Dog Spar in the Gulf of Mexico, utilizing its subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) remotely operated vehicle (ROV) vessel, MV Dove. Throughout the planning process, several risks… Read More
• Flowline Hydrate Remediation
  Client: W&T Offshore Project: Fastball Flowline Hydrate Remediation   Scope of Work Remediation/removal of complete hydrate blockage and flushing of flowline to satisfy government requirements for decommissioning was performed.  The project took 19 days to complete. The tie-back well had already been de-completed and the jumper removed. Access was through a high-flow Hotstab port on a… Read More
• Acid Stimulation of Wells
  Client: Anadarko Petroleum Company (APC) Project: Acid Stimulation of Wells Location: KC875 #1 (Lucius), GC770 #1 (Caesar-Tonga), and GC683 #3 (Caesar-Tonga)   Scope of Work The prescribed acid treatment to stimulate each well was pumped down dual, open-water coiled tubing (CT) downlines to the subsea well location. The TEI 15K STIM package was used to… Read More
• Flowline Segment Hydrate Remediation
  Client: Eni Petroleum Project: Longhorn Flowline Segment Hydrate Remediation Location: Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon, Block 502   Scope of work The primary objective of this project was to clear the flowline of a hydrate blockage to restore production from well #3. The extent of hydrate formation was unknown. The only access was through 1”… Read More